Greenville police say patrols will continue as usual on the city's portion of the Swamp Rabbit Trail after a woman was attacked in broad daylight.

On Thursday, around 11:30 a.m., police say a woman was rollerblading on the trail between Cleveland Park and the YMCA when a man on a bicycle struck her in the head, She fell to the ground, and police said the attacker continued to hit her until she fought him off.

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Police say they have heard from some people who think they saw the woman's attacker, but they haven't identified him.

The trail is 17.5 miles long and Greenville police patrol 5 miles of it. Police say one officer is on the city's stretch of the trail from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m Monday through Friday. On nights and weekends, officers assigned to downtown patrol the trail on foot.

"We're going to keep doing what we're doing. We're going to obviously keep the officer on the trail and we're gonna just respond to the crime as it happens. The thing that we need to understand mostly is the officer can't be everywhere at once that's why we keep them constantly moving on the trail," Officer Johnathan Bragg said.

Bragg said the attack was random and was not connected to an attack at Falls Park last month. In that case, the victim said he was riding his bike home late at night when he was surrounded by at least a dozen teens. He said he was punched, kicked and had a gun put to his head and the the group took off with his bike and belongings.

"The attack in Falls Park near the Swamp Rabbit Trail where the guy was robbed on a bicycle, the description was given out as several black males," Bragg said.

On Monday, police plan to ask Greenville City Council for more officers downtown.

"We’ll have to wait for the outcome of that to see what we do. And there may be something in the future where we put another officer on the trail. It’ll just be what comes in the future, as far as plans that we make, if we get any other officers assigned to the department," Bragg said.

In Thursday's assault, police are looking for a white man in his late teens or early 20s, 5 feet 10 inches tall, with a slim build, dark hair and dark eyes.He was wearing a tan shirt and black plants.

Thursday's assault is just one of several violent crimes that have occurred in the area recently. On August 20th, two cyclists said they were shot at while riding off West Blue Ridge Drive. Greenville County Sheriff's Office is investigating it as an attempted murder. The agency is also investigating a homicide after discovering a man shot to death in the woods near West Blue Ridge Drive.

The Sheriff's Office says it has two full-time deputies assigned to patrol the trail seven days a week in addition to regular uniform patrol.

Anyone with information on Thursday's assault or any of the recent crimes is asked to call Crimestoppers at 23-crime.